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TIL 30 Japanese hornets can take down 30000 European honey bees.

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9YNyB TIL Giuseppe Meazza, a soccer player, was sleeping when his game started against a top of the league team. After a few minutes, he was dragged from his bed without even washing his face, and went to the stadium. He scored two goals to win the game and was man of the match.
mx4EO TIL that most of the fish we eat die by asphyxiation. "Ike Jime" is a Japanese humane technique to kill & preserver the fish’s flavor, texture & also removes the nasty tastes caused by suffocation, like adrenaline, lactic-acid, & the cortisol that spikes in the blood.
8aP6V TIL up until 1981, a purely heterosexual form of polyamorous marriage was widely practiced among the Tibetans: each man had many wives, and each woman had many husbands. This practice is still common today in rural areas.
x6Qyw TIL about Burari Deaths, a case of ritual mass suicide. 10 people were found hanging in the same room;1 person was found strangled in another, ruled out to be shared psychosis. Lalit Bhatia claimed to be possessed by the soul of his deceased father, who was guiding the family to attain a good life!
deX8 TIL during World War 1, feminists and suffragettes handed out white feathers to shame men into enlisting in the army and lobbied for instituting an involuntary draft of men, including those who lacked votes due to being too young or not owning property.